Multiresidue Methods for the Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Food

"Pesticide residues can persist for some time and can be harmful to human health, wildlife and the global environment. Determination of such residues helps to keep the production sustainability and to design policies to protect endangered ecosystems. This book presents the key features of pesticide residues analysis in food matrices. It provides both theoretical and practical, updated information on instrumental advances and their applications as well as the main trends in sample preparations protocols employed in MRM pesticide residue analysis."--Provided by publisher In the last decades the public concern on the pesticide residues content in foods have been steadily rising. The global development of food trade implies that aliments from everywhere in the world can reach the consumer`s table. Therefore, the identification of agricultural practices that employ different pesticides combinations and application rates to protect produce must be characterized, as they left residues that could be noxious to human health. However, the possible number of pesticides (and its metabolites of toxicological relevance) to be found in a specific commodity is almost 1500, and the time needed to analyze them one by one, makes this analytical strategy a unrealistic task. To overcome this problem, the concept of Multi Residue Methods (MRM) for the analysis of pesticide traces have been developed. The advent of new and highly sensitive instrumentation, based in hyphenatedchromatographic systems to coupled mass analyzers (XC (MS/MS) or MSn) permitted simultaneously the identification and the determination of up to hundreds of pesticide residues in a single chromatographic run. Multiresidue Methods for the Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Food presents the analytical procedures developed in the literature, as well as those currently employed in the most advanced laboratories that perform routinely Pesticide Residue Analysis in foods. In addition to these points, the regulations, guidelines and recommendations from the most important regulatory agencies of the world on the topic will be commented and contrasted. Content: Machine generated contents note: SECTION I REGULATORY ISSUES -- ch. 1 European Union Monitoring Programs / Paula Medina-Pastor -- ch. 2 Monitoring Programs in the United States / Chris Sack -- SECTION II SAMPLE PREPARATION -- ch. 3 Most Common Sample Preparation Methods for Pesticide Residue Analysis: Ethyl Acetate Method, Mini-Luke, and Matrix Solid Phase Dispersion / Ana Lozano -- ch. 4 Sample Preparation Methods for the Determination of Organic Micropollutants / Leo M.L. Nollet -- ch. 5 QuEChERS and Other MRM Sample Preparation Methods: SPE, SPME, DLLME, SBSE, ASE, MAE, SFE / Horacio Heinzen -- SECTION III ANALYSIS -- ch. 6 Gas Chromatography -- Mass Spectrometry: Basic Concepts and Instrumentation / Basil K. Munjanja -- ch. 7 Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) / Basil K. Munjanja -- ch. 8 Gas Chromatographic Analysis of Pesticide Residues / Andres Perez-Parada -- ch. 9 Applications of LC-MS/MS in Pesticide Residue Analysis: An Overview / Kaushik Banerjee -- ch. 10 Time-of-Flight and Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry for Target and Nontarget Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Food / Amadeo R. Fernandez-Alba -- ch. 11 Databases for Pesticide Residue Analysis / Antonio Molina-Diaz -- ch. 12 QA/QC for Pesticide Residue Analysis / Stanislaw Walorczyk.